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When Will You Update Your Name and Facebook Relationship Status?

So I wouldn’t have updated my Facebook status from the altar like this guy, but I may have changed it a little sooner than I did if I could have...

Truth be told, I didn’t wait that long to change my relationship status--it was a done deal the day after our wedding and before our honeymoon. I totally would have changed it on my wedding night, though, because it was just that exciting (hey, I waited a long time for it!). But I didn’t own a smart phone at the time (R.I.P. purple flip-phone), and Paul and I obviously didn’t bring our laptop to our wedding-night hotel room, so I had to hold off until I was back in our apartment the next night.

I did get a post on my wall informing me that it was time to change my name. Full disclosure: I have, on occasion, been that girl reminding others to update their status from in a relationship to engaged or from engaged to married (I think it’s because I go on Facebook more than a normal person does or should!). Still, I wasn’t planning on changing my name, on Facebook or elsewhere, so it irked me a bit that someone urged me to make the switch via a public wall post.

When do you plan on making changes to your Facebook profile to reflect your newly engaged or married status? Does it bother you when your Facebook friends wait days or weeks to do it? (I have a friend whose relationship status still says single, despite going from that to being in a relationship, to being engaged, to being married! And I swear she’s not trying to hide the fact that she’s hitched!) Do you ever remind other recently engaged or married folks to update their profiles?